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Rest in Peace Eric Slocum

I did not know Eric – only that I always seemed to catch him on TV or radio whenever I came back home here to Seattle to visit during the 80s and 90s.

His friends remember him as a very decent human being – who sadly, according to what appear to be his posts on Facebook, struggled for years with severe depression. There is no word about a cause of death, but when the community loses a contributor – it doesn’t really matter.

“It is with great sadness that we’ve learned of the death of Eric Slocum, former KOMO 4 anchor/reporter and former KOMO Newsradio anchor.

Eric was a part of the KOMO-TV news team for 10 years and spent another six behind a KOMO Newsradio microphone.

He left KOMO Newsradio in 2008 to write a memoir and concentrate on the poems that he so loved. In 1996, Eric wrote a moving book of poems called “New Words”, which was published with Fisher and Childrens’ Hospital to help raise money for childrens’ health care.

We do not know yet about any services or remembrances. We’ll keep everyone posted.”

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